The European HPC cloud platform

1. The European HPC
cloud platform
For the deployment, management
and on-demand usage of simulation
software.
Andreas Ocklenburg - CEO
Tamas Kiss – Chair of Advisory Board
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2. cloudSME Project
• Funded by the European Commission FP7 programme –
Factories of the Future initiative
• Duration time: July 2013 – March 2016
• EUR 4.5 million overall funding
• Coordinated by the University of Westminster
• 16 initial project partners – including 12 SMEs
• 13 new partners (12 SMEs) joined in January 2015 as result of
an Open Call
• Focus: foster the uptake of simulation software especially
among small and medium-sized enterprises by offering
software as a Service (SaaS) on a scalable platform.
• Founded as a company in January 2016
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3. Company
• Founded by 8 former project partner from 6
different countries
• Advisory board with leading scientific and
commercial experts
• Registered and based in Duisburg, Germany
– CEO Andreas Ocklenburg
– CTO Nicola Fantini
– Chair of Advisory Board Tamas Kiss
• Main business: Running and Operating the
cloudSME HPC Platform (cloudSME-apps.com)
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4. What makes us different
• Dedicated to “On Demand Usage” of
computational resources with full
scalability
• Specialized on the needs of simulation
applications and user
• European technology using European
data centers to fulfill the security
requirements of European enterprises.
• Independency from any global player
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5. cloudSME platform
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• Software users from
manufacturing and
engineering, mainly.
• ISVs/VARS consultancies
to implement their software
in the cloudSME platform
and/or use cloud integration
via API.
• Datacentres/Infrastructure
providers (commercial &
academic providers &
supercomputing centres)
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6. cloudSME - our mission
• Enabling technology to use the full
stack of cloud computing technologies
in an easy, efficient, affordable and
secure way.
• MSaaS (Modelling and Simulation as a
service), includes SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and
consulting / advice.
• HPCaaS (High Performance Computing
as a service)
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7. cloudSME - our vision
• Growing our business
• Support of and Cooperation with other
Research- and Innovation projects
• Activation of our international business
• Becoming a Competence Center for
Simulation, Cloud- and HPC computing
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8. cloudSME – your benefit
Managed platform with support and advice
Ideal development and production infrastructure
– Independency from underlying resource
– Many different commercial and academic resources
available
– Easy commercialization for your application via AppCenter,
ready to use
– Transparent documentation of jobs, usage of resources and
costs
– “White Label” integration in any website / any software via
APIs
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9. cloudSME commercial offerings
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• Simulation applications that can be published and directly
executed from the CloudSME App Center based on the software
as a service (SaaS) model.
• Awarded platform technology with powerful capabilities that
smoothly enables computationally intensive Fluid Dynamics
Simulations (MPI support).
• fast-track deployment & a great variety of cloud integration
methods (various APIs, PaaS, Docker).
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10. cloudSME commercial offerings
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• The provision of access to heterogeneous commercial and
private cloud resources (IaaS)as well as European
supercomputing centres (i.e. German HLRS, Italian CINECA or
French Romeo Center)
• HPC as a service (HPCaaS).
• Security: Data operation in European data centres and industrial
security level. Operation mode “Europe only” possible.
• Advanced and proven technology to model workflow solutions.
• The provision of expert consulting services at each step of
software integration.
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11. Main technological components
• cloudSME Platform
– enables the deployment and execution of compute-intensive applications on different
clouds
– widely automates user, software, resource, job, and invoice management.
– has been ranked as No. 1 regarding its innovation potential by the Joint Research
Centre of the European Commission in a latest study.
• cloudSME App Center, including
– a public landing page
– a web shop, and
– a set of commercial services that are available via APIs and can be integrated into
marketplaces or vendor products.
• WS-PGRADE/gUSE Framework
– supports the development and deployment of HPC application workflows across
different types of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs)
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12. cloudSME platform architecture
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13. cloudSME AppCenter
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14. cloudSME Platform
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15. Representative business scenario 1
DHCAE OpenFOAM® Solver
DHCAE – OpenFoam Solver in the cloud,
www.dhcae-cloud.com
• Desktop application
• HPC computing resource connected via
API in background
• All necessary cloudSME Platform
functions integrated in GUI
• White Lable usage (powered by cloudSME)
• It’s now an active business case
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16. Representative business scenario 1 -
DHCAE OpenFOAM® Solver
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17. setup upload simulate download visualize
(GUI)
(Solvers)
CloudSigma, Amazon...
Platform
GUI downloaded
from the AppCenter
Runtime
Monitoring
22/9/2015
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Representative business scenario 2 –
TransAT CFD simulation by Ascomp
Or direct visualisation via
ParaView in the cloud
without downloading
result files

18. Representative business scenario 2 –
TransAT CFD simulation by Ascomp
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19. Business, we are current working on,
some examples ...
• Institute for Mechatronics wants the to
enhance their computing cluster via
cloudSME platform
• Fortune 500 company wants to market their
CAE applications in Europe on an European
platform
• Classical Provider (Hoster) wants to
enhance their products with server on
demand (using cloudSME technology)
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20. Thanks for your interest!
cloudSME
platform for cloud architects
CloudSME UG
TecTower
Bismarckstr. 142
47057 Duisburg
Germany
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+49 203 3639 9955
Andreas@cloudsme.eu
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